the aim of the present research was to identity and to present the optimum state of iran sport media management from the viewpoints of top media and sport specialists. to achieve an optimum theory, q method was used. a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of 60 questions was designed using the 7-point likert scale and its validity was confirmed by specialists and university professors. stat...

One of the most significant limitations of current middleware platforms, both commercial and research, is that they typically support only a small, pre-defined, set of fundamental binding types (e.g., remote method invocation). This restriction limits the scope of platforms in that they cannot easily accommodate, or easily be extended to accommodate, richer or more specialised forms of interact...

The role of social media, in particular microblogging platforms such as Twitter, as a conduit for actionable and tactical information during disasters is increasingly acknowledged. However, time-critical analysis of big crisis data on social media streams brings challenges to machine learning techniques, especially the ones that use supervised learning. The scarcity of labeled data, particularl...

Given a recording of a lecture, one cannot easily locate a topic of interest, or skim for important points. However, by presenting the user with a summary of a discourse, listening to speech can be made more efficient. One approach to the problem of summarizing and skimming speech has been termed "emphasis detection." This study evaluates an emphasis detection approach by comparing the speech s...

Due to the massive explosion of multimedia content on the web, users demand a new type of information retrieval, called cross-modal multimedia retrieval where users submit queries of one media type and get results of various other media types. Performing effective retrieval of heterogeneous multimedia content brings new challenges. One essential aspect of these challenges is to learn a heteroge...

In the MediaEval 2017 Multimedia Satellite Task, we propose an approach based on regression random forest which can extract valuable information from a few images and their corresponding metadata. The experimental results show that when processing social media images, the proposed method can be high-performance in circumstances where the images features are low-level and the training samples ar...

Multi-media is widely regarded as useful in discrete psychomotor skills training and re-familiarisation. However, the effective exploitation of multi-media in Defence requires an empirical evaluation of its effectiveness compared to traditional training methods. Sixty-four participants undertaking weapon handling drills training were assigned to one of two groups: an experimental multimedia rev...

I present a 3D model of human lips and develop a framework for training it from real data. The model starts o with generic physics speci ed with the nite element method and \learns" the correct physics through observations. The model's physics allow physically-based regularization between sparse observation points and the resulting set of deformations are used to derive the correct physical mod...

with respect to population growth and agricultural development in ardabil plain, vulnerability assessment of the plain aquifer is necessary for management of groundwater resources and the prevention of groundwater contamination. in this study, vulnerability of ardabil plain aquifer to pollution was evaluated by drastic method. drastic model was prepared by seven effective parameters on vulnerab...